Roy Wellington
Senior Software Engineer at Commure
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoy Wellington is a senior backend software engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating RESTful services for mobile, web, and internal consumers across startups and large enterprises. He has deep Python expertise (including contributions to the widely used Certbot project to modernize Python 3 compatibility), plus solid C/C++ background and growing Rust experimentation. Roy has designed geospatial and high-throughput backends using Postgres, Cassandra, MongoDB and novel tools like Tile38, and has hands-on devops experience on Linux and AWS. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs pragmatic service design with operational ownership—deploying, patching, and debugging production systems—and enjoys solving tricky compatibility and testing issues that others overlook.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (8)
python10
certbot10
acme10
letsencrypt10
six9
testing8
unit-test7
unit-testing7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
certbot/certbot
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Certbot is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 8 PRs, 4 comments in 27 days
Contributions summary:Roy primarily focused on Python code improvements and bug fixes within the Certbot project. Their work involved updating code to be Python 3 compatible, addressing syntax issues, and resolving import problems. They also made minor code adjustments, such as removing unnecessary spaces and updating octal literals for Python 3 compatibility. The user's contributions also included fixes to the testing framework.
actletsencryptpythonsslcertbot
thanatos/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:29 pushes in 7 years 4 months
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